FRONTIERS ON WONDERFUL WORLD OF NUCLEIC ACIDS 2023

Frontiers on wonderful world of nucleic acids 2023

International symposium

Slovenian Etnographic Museum, Metelkova 2, Ljubljana, January 25, 2023


Program


January 25, 2023

8:30

Welcome

8:50–9:00

Opening remarks: Janez Plavec

9:00–9:30

Claudia Sissi, Uni. of Padova: The Wonderful Worlds of (non‐canonical) Nucleic Acids

9:30–9:50

Primož Šket: Influence of vacant cation binding sites on cation movement

9:50–10:10

Peter Podbevšek: Interaction of fluorescent alkaloids with nucleic acids

10:10–10:30

Aleš Novotny: NMR study of structures adopted by CGAG‐rich oligonucleotides

10:30–11:00

Coffee break with refreshments

11:00–11:20

Martina Lenarčič Živković: G‐quadruplexes in osteoporosis‐related RANKL gene

11:20–11:40

Jasna Brčić: Structural equilibrium in G‐rich non‐coding RNA

11:40–12:00

Maja Marušič: RNA meets PNA

12:00–12:20

Matic Kovačič: Exploring the Binding Behavior of RGG Peptides and G‐quadruplexes

12:20–14:00

Lunch and guided visit of the museum

14:00–14:20

Anita Kotar: Structural insights into processing of miRNA

14:20–14:40

Maria Toplishek: Study of DNA:RNA hybrid duplexes in the presence of ethylene glycol

14:40–15:00

Marko Trajkovski: Structural features of i‐motifs in cell‐mimicking environment

15:00–15:20

Simon Aleksič: Oxidized (non)canonical DNA and its equilibria

15:20–15:50

Coffee break

15:50–16:10

Vojč Kocman: NMR study of G‐quadruplex protein complex

16:10–16:30

Nataša Medved: The effect of 5-methylcytosine on bcl2Mid G-quadruplex structure and stability

16:30–16:50

Vesna Štih: Studying RNA‐RNA interactions with NMR

16:50–17:10

Monika Škrjanc: Spectroscopic markers of glycosides in honey

17:10–17:40

Naoki Sugimoto, FIBER, Kobe: Prediction of structure and stability of nucleic acids under molecular crowding: To B or not to B

17:40

Concluding remarks